GUS THE THEATRE CAT
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Gus is the cat at the the-a - tre door. Hisname, as I ought to havetold you be- fore. Is
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real - ly A - spa - ra - gus, but that's such a fuss, to pronounce, that we
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u -sual-ly call him just Gus. His coat's ve - ry shab- by, he's thin as a rake, and he
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suf -fers from pal - sy that makes his pawshake. Yet he was in his youth quite the
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smart-est of cats, but no lon - ger a ter - ror to mice or to rats. For he
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is - n't the cat that he was in his prime, though his name was quite fa- mous, he
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says, in his time. And whe - ne - ver he joins his friends at their club, Which takes
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place at the back of the neigh -bour - ing pub. He loves to re -
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gale them, if some - one else pays, with a - nec - dotes drawn from his
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pal - mi - est days. For he once was a star of the high -est de - gree, he has
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ac ted with Ir - ving, he has ac ted withTree. And he likes to re - late his suc - cess onthe
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halls, where the gal - le - ry once gave him se - ven cat calls. But his
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great - est cre - a - tion as he loves to tell, was Fi - re - frore -
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fid - dle, the Fiend of the Fell.
